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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1942
Page
6
Socially Speaking notes Miss Madelon Jandes day camp director invites parents and friends to Girl Scout Camp Rotan for the last day of day camp. Scouts will showcase arts and crafts and archery on the new range. Parents may view daily program activities.
Dr. Norris Beasley and family visit his mother Mrs. F J Beasley in Grandview Heights after Beasley completes hospital training and accepts Army Medical Corps commission. Phillip Elliott, West Point graduate at Ft Knox, promoted to captain. Mansfield and other relatives host guests from Chicago to Athens for the week. Will Bobo family hosts daughter-in-law and grandchildren from Tiffin. Mac Bobo visits from Point Pleasant. Prof J R Morton hosts guests for Father's Day including E P Shetter, Virginia Trace, and E R ONEILL. Kathrine Connett departs for San Diego to join Consolidated Aircraft Co. Ardilla Shuster visits Parkersburg and Little Hocking for about ten days. Private F C Pearl G Conant returns to Augusta GA after furlough. A F Antle spends weekend in Dayton with son Darrel Tucker at Wright Field.
The School of Painting and Allied Arts announces an exhibit of work by Athens artists to be shown early next month. Director L. C. Mitchell invites local painters, draftsmen, sculptors and other artists to contact the school to exhibit their work.
Numerous local groups announce meetings and picnics from June 24 to June 25. Hillcrest Needle Club hosts at Mrs. A. R. Caster's country home. Pocahontas Lodge plans a hamburger fry. Athens Colony New England Women meet near Albany. League of Women Voters holds a June 25 picnic at Mrs. Crumley’s with officer election and a skit.
Step by step guidance from The Athens Messenger on preparing fabric and pattern pieces for sewing. It covers locating and aligning tissue patterns, choosing cutting methods, and marking pieces before basting, with emphasis on concentration and proper workspace.
Provides sewing tips for pattern adjustments seam allowances and hem planning. Advises 3 to 8 inch seam allowances, two inch hems for average dresses, exact skirt piece measurements with extra added, and keeping unused pattern pieces out of the way. Recommends pattern version selection and equipment such as a medium needle and No 50 60 or 70 thread for average fabrics.
A family purchasing agent designs inventive contraptions to bring groceries home during war restricted deliveries. A housewife uses a neat red wheeled victory van with a wood lightweight frame that rolls smoothly and gains stability from a removable shopping bag. Navy blue fabric imitates washable leather.
Mrs. Charles Finsterwald hosted a Seven Sisters Club dinner at 5 Watt Street Sunday to mark the birthday anniversary of her mother Mrs. Elizabeth Whyte of Nelsonville. Attending were Mrs. Harve Sayre Mrs. Winifred Shively Mrs. Mary Colbert Mrs. Floyd Leake and son Tommy Joe all of Buchtel and Mrs. Jack Byron of Murray City. Misses Regina and Bernadine Whyte attended as guests. Seven sisters were present except Mrs. John Clark of Glouster who could not attend.
The Albany Parent-Teacher Association sponsors a baked goods and home products sale at Tewksbury's Department Store in Albany. On Saturday morning June 27, Mrs. Howard Stanley chairs the finance committee and Mrs. Frank Radcliff runs arrangements and sales. The entire membership will not be solicited at this time.
In a tense scene, Ronald mourns a rumor about Dicky’s influence on Carolyn’s circle while Aunt Madge plans a calculated course of care. She reassures Ronald with a promise to reveal concrete facts, then prescribes a comforting retreat for the visitors and herself as they await her father.
A mixed page of social etiquette questions with answers about timely thank you notes, hostess remarks, using flowers, and handling visiting friends. Also a small notice of Albany W.S.C.S. meeting time and a fashion tip suggesting a bow adorned summer hat or veil to complement an evening dress.
Madge Graham suspects Howald Brinton knows a culpable secret about his sister Cece tied to Marion Morion's kidnapping. She forces guard duties over Dicky Graham and plans to stay near Ronald at the Hotel Lansfield. A tense scene ends with suspense as the story continues tomorrow.
An Athens Messenger promotion urges readers to alter their diet to lose weight, offering a 32 page booklet “The New Way To a Youthful Figure” with low calorie menus and a 3 day liquid plan. The notice asks readers to send 10 cents plus 1 cent for mailing to The Athens Messenger Home Service.
A wife inquires if Uncle Sam can teach sons to be neat by housing them in small hutments like Camp Blanding soldiers and by training them to hang up clothes, bring in guns, and have a place for every item. The piece jokes about eager housewives hoping for a quick, military-style solution.
Ohio housewives will receive sugar to can fruit for home use under OPA policy. One pound sugar per four quarts fruit, plus one extra pound per person for jams and jellies. War price and rationing boards issue home canning certificates after questions on past and planned canning and pantry stock.
Invitation extended for O E S Athens Shrine No 6 to attend Chillicothe Shrine inspection on Friday July 3. Dinner at 6 pm in the O E S Temple. Insisting officer Mrs Elizabeth Byrd Des Moines Iowa will preside. Dinner reservations by June 30 to Mrs Dorothy Byers Chillicothe.
The Advanced Red Cross Course in First Aid, taught by Miss Charlotte La Tourette, has been successfully completed by Mary D. Blayne y, Mrs. George Cain, Paul W. Carpenter, Mable K. Crumley, Katherine Figg, Mary Hope, Ann M. Kellner, Hazel Morrison, George A. Patterson, H. Howell Roseberry, I. Wilson Rupe, Jessie Smart Rad ford, Villa Tippie, Mary S. Tribe, Bertha Vickers, Virginia Wilson.
Mrs. James Musser of Columbus hosted the Columbus Athenian Club meeting on Sunday June 21. Sixteen members and three guests attended. Reading program by Mrs. Anna Bothwick Mrs. Etta Hart and Miss Lola Clark included accordion selections by Mrs. Bakers daughter. The program commemorated Flag Day and Father’s Day.
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